If you ever have the chance to do an animal contact program, do it! At least if it’s as well done as the Beluga Contact at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.
My husband bought me a gift certificate for the program as an anniversary present. We went down this Sunday to get another for him since we thought it would be more fun to do together.
The Beluga’s are absolutely beautiful and they have the greatest expressions. We were dressed in waders and got to climb into the tank and spend some up-close time with the largest whale, Inuk.
I learned all sorts of things that I never knew about Beluga whales and best of all, we got to touch him 
We rubbed his stomach and back and got to feel his tail. We saw him inhale a fish from 6 inches in front of him and felt the suction which is stronger than a vacuum cleaner. We each got to give him a hand signal for a vocalization, and we patted his tongue. It was absolutely amazing to be so close and interact with such a beautiful animal.
And to top it off, we all chose to see the above water demo of a whale spitting water. In the wild the whale would spit at the ocean floor to expose lobsters and shellfish. But here, we scooped a small amount of water into his mouth as the signal for him to shoot a gallon of water into our faces. We were beaming the whole time.
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